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The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
The Ruling Race A History of American Slaveholders
Author: James Oakes
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with thei...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393317053
ISBN-10: 0393317056
Publication Date: 1/1998
Pages: 307
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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